Reenforcement for boxes and packages



Feb. 5 1924. BAZAR? s. W. TREAT REENFORCEMENT FOR BOXES AND PACKAGES Filed Jan. 28; 1921 gg 9 K in f4 /9 3 in 2 6 v w 7 j# 'j Il Patented Feb. 5, 1924.

SIAE@ maar SIDNEY W. TREAT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SIGNODE SYSTEM, INC., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE REENFORCEIVIENT FOR BOXES AND PACKAGES.

Application filed January 28, 1921. Serial No. 440,648;

T o all whom t may concer/n:

Be it known that I, SIDNEY lV. TREAT, a citizen' ofthe United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook land State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reenforcement for Boxes and Packages, of which the following`is a specification.

his invention relates to a reinforcing plate fo-r use in connection with metallic banding material, used for reenforcement of boxes and packages.

It is an object of the invention to provide a reinforcing plate, economical, simple and efficient in character, which will serve to protect the package from the binder, loc-ate the b-inder definitely upon the package, protect the binder and otherwise be useful.

In the drawings, which represent an illustrative embodiment of the invention Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a box, equipped with the invention,

Figure 2 is a view in elevation, illustrating the device of my invention, the associ- 'ated binder being shown in section-as it. appears before it is finally tightened.

Fi 3 is across sectional View showing the application of the device to a box, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the device.

In the drawings, I have shown a box 1, provided with metallic box strapping 2, applied in the form of tensional binders; the flat box strapping 2 being illustrative oi' metallic binders. Such binders may be either box strappings, or Hator round wire.

I provide for use as-a reinforcing'V plate (in the embodiment shown in the drawings) a sheet metal structure comprising two webs 3, bent at right angles to each other and having, at the angle between them, abead 4. The angled structure thus made is cut away as shown at 5 in such a fashion as to leave two overhanging lips 6 at the upper part of the bead 4. These lips 6 are slightly down-turned and project inwardly over the lateral margins 7 of the cut away portion, but are spaced vertically above the plane of the webs 3, so that a metallic binder may ass around the box corner under the overiianging lips 6.

The devlce may be applied upon a box corner in the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 3, wherein the prongs 8, are driven in to engage the surface of the box material. Subsequently, a box binder, in this instance in the form of a box strap 2, is drawn around the box in line with the recesses 5. Upon drawing the binder tight, its edges will pass inwardly beyond and snap under the lips 6 previously described in the manner shown in Fig. 2. The binder 2 is thus housed and securely positioned in a pathway or groove formed by the recess 5, and locked therein by the overhanging lips 6. The result is equivalent to threading the binder through a slot or opening in the reinforcing members, but this threading operation is unnecessary as the binder may be applied after the members are placed on the box.

The ends 9 of the bead 4 are fiattened down as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4. This prevents these ends from becoming caught upon a floor nail or other obstruction and makes it possible more easily to slide the box on the corner beads V4.

In the illustrative embodiment ofthe in-. vention, herein disclosed, the construction is shown as an edge protector, and in association with fl-atmetallic box strapping. Other forms of the invention might be employed within departing from the scope thereof which is more truly defined in the appended claims.

Having now described my invention, I claim t 1. A reinforcing platefor shipping concontainers and protect the container against the binder, snap means for snapping the .binder int-o engagement with the plate, whereby a middle point of the binder may be engaged with the plate without threading the plate along the binder from one end thereof.

2. A reinforcingplate for shipping containers, adapted to underlie a binder on s aid containers and protect the container against the binder, and a. pair of projecting lips on the plate adapted to overlie the binder and effect an engagement between .the binder and the plate. 3. A reinforcing plate for shipping containers, adapted to underlie a binder on said containers and protect the container against the binder, and a pair of projecting lips on the plate adapted to overlie the binder and eect an engagement between the binder and the plate, said lips being adapted to yield and recover when the binder is pressed downwardly therebetween, so as to receive and engage the binder with a snap action. o 4.1, An edge protector for shipping containers, adapted to underlie a, binder, said protector including a pair of wings adapted to be compressed by the binder to lit upon a boX edge, arecess at the angle between said wings and a pair of lips projecting over said recess and adapted to yieldl and recover when the binder is pressed therebetween, to engage the binder. f

5. An edge protector for shipping containers, adapted to underlie a binder, said protector including a pair of wings adapted to be compressed by the binder to fit upon a box edge, a pair of lips at the angle between the wings and adapted to engage a binder.

6. An edge protector for shipping containers, adapted to underlie a binder, said protector including a pair of wings adapted to be compressed by the binder to lit upon a box edge, a bead between the wings, a channel at the angle between the wings to receive a binder, said bead being cut away at said channel, and lips projecting from the bead over said channel to engage a box binder.

7. An edge protector for shipping containers, adapted to underlie a binder, Said protector including a pair of wings adapted to be compressed by the binder to t upon a box edge, a bead between the wings, said bead being cut away transversely intermediate its ends to receive a binder, and pro-u vided with -a lip adapted to project over the binder when the same is located in the cut away portion of the bead.

8. An edge protector for shipping conn tainers, adapted to underlie a binder, said protector including a' pair of wings, adapted to be compressed by the binder to iit upon a box edge, a bead between the wings, said bead being cut away transversely intermediate its ends to receive a binder, and provided with a pair of lips adapted to project over the binder when the same is in the recess, said lips being adapted to yield and recover with a snap action, when a binder is pressed downwardly thereon, and thereby engage the binder.

9. A corner plate for shipping containers underlying a binder on said container and protecting the binder therefrom, said plate being provided with a pair of lips under which the edges of the binder may be snapped by te-nsional force upon the latter to hold said binder in position relatively to said plate.

10. A corner plate for shipping containers underlying a binder on said container and protecting the binder therefrom, the

said plate comprising a lip under which the SIDNEY W. TREAT. 

